Destroy Middle East Airlines passenger planes on Beirut International Airport
Date
December 28, 1968; 55 years ago (1968-12-28)
Executed by
Sayeret Matkal
Outcome
Israeli success
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t
e
Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
Engagements
El Al Flight 426 hijacking
El Al Flight 253 attack
retaliation raid
El Al Flight 432 attack
TWA Flight 840 hijacking (1969)
Avivim school bus bombing
Lod Airport massacre
Sabena Flight 571
1972 air raid
Kiryat Shmona massacre
Ma'alot massacre
1974 Nahariya attack
Savoy Hotel attack
Kfar Yuval hostage crisis
Coastal Road massacre
1978 South Lebanon conflict
1979 Ma'alot attack
1979 Nahariya attack
Misgav Am hostage crisis
1981 bombing of Lebanon
1982 Lebanon War
siege of Beirut
International incidents
Munich massacre
Operation Wrath of God
1972 raid
Israeli Bangkok Embassy hostage crisis
1973 raid
Sabena Flight 571 hijacking
Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
1973 New York City bomb plot
1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack
TWA Flight 841 (1974)
Pan Am Flight 110
Operation Entebbe
The 1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon, code-named Operation Gift (Hebrew: מבצע תשורה, mivtza t'shura), was an Israeli Special Forces operation at the Beirut International Airport in the evening of December 28, 1968, in retaliation for the attack on the Israeli Airliner El Al Flight 253 two days earlier by the Lebanon-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The commandos from the Israeli army's elite Sayeret Matkal destroyed 12 passenger airplanes[note 1] belonging to Middle East Airlines (MEA) and Lebanese International Airways (LIA) and two cargo planes belonging to Trans Mediterranean Airways (TMA).[1][2] There were no casualties reported in the raid.[3]
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^Annual summary 1968/3, Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved November 9, 2015
^Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (August 13, 2000). "THE WAR OF ATTRITION AND THE CEASE FIRE - INTRODUCTION". Retrieved May 30, 2008.
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